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Summary: Insightful and informative.
Review: I was surprised to see how low the average customer review for this text was, however on second thought this is a very contraversial exposition with some extreme views. The book espouses an early( about 4'000 years ago ) six day creation in which all things as we see them today were brought into being. As a Christian and a scientist, I grappled with this view for years.
But with my objective study of science and biology and research into the Creation versus Evolution contraversy I finally came to the conclusion, that this notion, far from being nonsensical, is very plausible, and in fact I,m convinced of it's veracity. It's true that many in our modern "enlightened" society would parochially dismiss it as mere fundamentalist propoganda, but these are merely the narrow-minded product of a society inculcated by a sensationalist, unproven, 100 year fad called evolution. My advice is to approach this book with an open mind, and don't let societal prejudice influence your subjective judgement. I would highly reccomend Scott M. Huse's book "The Collapse of Evolution", and Malcolm Bowden's book "Science versus Evolution" as scientific companions to this book.
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Summary: A good book with one flaw
Review: This is a good book that clearly shows that creationism is an important part of Christianity instead of just a few contradictory sentences that can be easily abandonded. I just think that Morris goes too far when he claims that every single reference to creation in general supports the idea of creation having happened the way told in Genesis 1. If you use common sense and think critically, this book certainly is worth reading.
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Summary: Creation from Genesis to Revelation
Review: To those who believe that they can perform an exegetical lobotomy on the Bible and discard the first eleven chapters of Genesis this book comes as a disapointment. Morris takes us through the many passages in the Bible that speak about creation, the curse and the flood, from Genesis to Revelation, including the teachings of Jesus, the disciples and the apostle Paul. One cannot really make sense of any other of the central doctrines of the Bible, such as sin, death as a result of sin, the need for salvation, the physical encarnation of Jesus, His physical ressurection, the promise of a new heaven and earth without curse and death, apart from the doctrine of creation and the fall. As I read this book I took the opportunity to read and mark all the quoted texts in my Bible and even found more interesting texts. I had never studied the biblical doctrine of creation before, and I must say that the simple reading of the relevant biblical texts is quite conclusive: theistic evolutionism and progressive creationism just cannot be made compatible with the Bible. If Jesus, the creator Word, can get himself a new ressurected and special body in a matter of seconds, he can create the whole universe in six days. The opposite also makes total sense. What's more, when Jesus multiplied the fishes and the loaves of bread and ressurected Lazarus, he didn't need trial and error nor randomness. He just did it right there. After all, the Bible makes it clear that he his the creator and sustainer of the universe, just by his Word. I just don't see why I should have more confidence in human scientists then in their creator. It takes a lot of argumentative acrobatics to even try to harmonize the hipothesis of evolution with the Bible, but in the end it just won't work. The Bible presents a creator that knows exactly what to do and how to do it. Random mutations is just not his way of creating things. Nor mutations nor natural selection are able to generate all the complex specified information present in living organisms. The reading of this book made it clear to me that there are good and irrefutable theological reasons to support the biblical model. It also made it clear to me that we are dealing with an whole powerful God that is not very impressed with the science of the guys at Harvard, MIT or Oxford. The Bible says, in the book of Eclesiastes, that there are things that God has done that will never be understood by human beings, no matter how hard they study them. But what about scientific reasons? In my opinion, you have to start by accepting the biblical account by faith, puting aside all materialistic and antimetaphysical assumptions. No doubt about it. But it is not a blind faith. There are good a priori reasons to this faith. I don't advocate just any kind of blind faith. But once you accept the biblical notions of special creation, fall, curse, flood, Babel, dispersion and speciation, you will find that it makes sense of the origins of matter and life, the fine tuning of the universe, the fossil record, living fossils, good and bad design, DNA, homology, mutations and natural selection, speciation, irreducible complexity, complex specified information, apes and men, cave men, the emergence of languages and races, the ice age, continental drift, plate tectonics, radiometric dating, etc. Most of all, it makes sense of the rational, moral and spiritual nature of man and of his longing for God and for eternity.
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